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John Legere (born June 4, 1958) is an American businessman, former chief executive officer (CEO) and president of T-Mobile US. He previously worked for AT&T, Dell, and Global Crossing. He resigned as CEO following the approval of the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint.
A Massachusetts native, Legere graduated from St. Bernard’s Central Catholic School in Fitchburg, Massachusetts and aspired to be a gym teacher, before he figured out he wanted a more lucrative career and decided to study business instead. He received an Accounting BBA from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, an MS, as an Alfred P. Sloan fellow, at the MIT Sloan School of Management and an MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson University. He also completed Harvard Business School’s Program for Management Development (PMD).
Legere was appointed CEO of T-Mobile US in September 2012, and has since been noted for T-Mobile’s “Un-carrier” approach to contract-free wireless networks.
He first worked in telecommunications at New England Telephone in 1980. Legere then spent nearly twenty years at AT&T, where he spent some time working under Daniel Hesse, formerly…
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